TY - JOUR
AU - Spencer, Thomas M.
AB - Book Reviews 1471 ture, College of the Holy Cross) as well as her St. Louis wished to use cultural means to pro- concerns with the divide between intellectual mote order and “progress” in the city. Sand- and religious America today. weiss contends the essays in this anthology On the whole, this approach illuminates will examine this process of cultural change many dimensions of Homer’s career. Although and document the different cultures that ex- one might quibble with the choice of works isted in the city during the century. deemed critical to his life or want more de- Part 1 of the anthology, “Getting Along,” tailed discussion of individual pictures, Johns’s focuses on how St. Louisans from different contributions are many. For a reader such as political, racial, and ethnic backgrounds ac- myself, more accustomed to approaching commodated each other in the city. The first Homer through separate periods of produc- essay, by Kenneth H. Winn, consists almost tion, Johns’s biographical overview clarifies a entirely of biographic vignettes (drawn from number of critical points, namely, the central- well-worn secondary sources) of politically ity of women in Homer’s oeuvre and life, his prominent St. Louisans. Winn’s essay has no ongoing personal 
TI - St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View beyond the Garden Wall. Ed. by Eric Sandweiss. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xx, 251 pp. $32.50, isbn 0-8262-1439-8.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3660418
DA - 2004-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/st-louis-in-the-century-of-henry-shaw-a-view-beyond-the-garden-wall-ed-yQHNsWoW6m
SP - 1471
EP - 1472
VL - 90
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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